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The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales

10 best books like The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (Lafcadio Hearn): Tree of Cranes, African Folktales, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women, Japanese Tales, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy, Japanese Fairy Tales, Best-Loved Folktales of the World, Old Peter's Russian Tales, The Paper Door and Other Stories

Tree of Cranes
AuthorAllen Say
Tree of Cranes is a great book for helping my kindergarten students step out of their common understandings of Christmas and see the holiday from a new perspective. Set in Japan, we were able to have discussions about elements of traditional Japanese architecture (including tatami mats; futons; narrow,...
African Folktales
AuthorRoger D. Abrahams
Just like the others, I really enjoyed the tales, but not the commentary, which seemed excessive, superficial and a justification for the white scientist to have his name on the cover. Also, the grouping was weird (I would prefer by tribe), and the pictures of art objects seemed to be attached to fairy...
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
AuthorMoss Roberts
Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.

My favorite is one of the very shortest:

"The Missing Axe

"A...
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
AuthorCathy Layne
ISBN4770030061
Inside and other short fiction showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women writers today-including prize-winning novelists and authors never before published in English-as they explore the issue of female identity in a rapidly changing society.
AMY YAMADA ("Fiesta"), widely...
Japanese Tales
AuthorRoyall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN4770026102
Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and prose stylists, Osamu Dazai. Not the typical romantic fantasies so often seen in Japanese writing, filled with water sprites and vengeful ghosts, these stories are a mixture of fantastic allegory,...
Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorYei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN4805308818
Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
AuthorJoanna Cole
ISBN0385189494
A great compendium of stories with the common hidden theme which you can find if you read them with your heart.

Some favorites:

Maid Lena: This story reveals that the source of our lack of energy and courage is the result of something being “dead at our center,” and the necessity...
Old Peter's Russian Tales
AuthorArthur Ransome
ISBN1903252164
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
The Paper Door and Other Stories
AuthorNaoya Shiga
ISBN0231121571
No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. "The Paper Door and Other Stories" showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some of Shiga's stories "among the most brilliant...
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN4770023294
Preface by Donald Keene
Taketori Monogatari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is the oldest surviving Japanese work of fiction; The Tale of Genji (written about 1010) referred to it as the "ancestor of all romances." The names of five suitors, resembling those of members of the Japanese court of the...
Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
AuthorFlorence Sakade
A nice collection of Japanese fairy tales, "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" is nicely illustrated for young readers.

(And, at least in the case of the Romanian version, it's also adapted - there's a reference to Momotaro being sent by God to a childless elderly couple so he could be their...
Myths and Legends of Japan
AuthorF. Hadland Davis
ISBN0486270459
The most popular myths and legends of Japanese culture are charmingly retold in English in this handsomely illustrated book. Here are myths of gods, heroes and warriors; legends of Buddha, and of the goddess Benten and the god Daikoku; tales of the sea and of Mount Fuji; accounts of superstitions and...
Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami
AuthorAkiko Yosano
ISBN0887273734
Akiko Yosano's Tangled Hair, published in 1901, had a sensational impact on Japanese literature, and we are pleased to make this highly praised translation (originally published 30 years ago) available once again in a revised Cheng & Tsui edition. Akiko reshaped the tanka, the most popular form...
Vita Sexualis
AuthorŌgai Mori
ISBN0804810486
Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness,...
The Counterfeiter and Other Stories
AuthorYasushi Inoue
ISBN0804832528
3.5 stars. This little book of short stories is elegant and sweet. The stories aren't very captivating in themselves, but they way they are written is what keeps you captivated. The focus is introspective, mostly on thoughts, feelings, symbols, and themes. The beauty of the writing is shown in the intelligent...
Hell Screen
AuthorRyūnosuke Akutagawa
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and has left in Japanese literature a mass of artistic work, often grotesque and curious, that, while it undoubtedly angers the proletarian experimenters who now hold the stage and fight with lusty pens and...
Monstress #8
AuthorMarjorie M. Liu
I'm rounding to 5 stars, because this story is every time better . The art as outstanding as always. And the story is working to add more background to Maika, the past war, and besides... awesome shark-arcanic!.

Maika and co. are aboard a pirate vessel following Moriko steps, the Tryrian crew...
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
AuthorMichael Dylan Foster
ISBN0520271025
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued...
Parfum de glace
AuthorYōko Ogawa
ISBN2742749594
Il y a quelque chose dans le suicide de l'être aimé qu'on ne parvient jamais à accepter. C'est le cas de Ryoko, lancée irrésistiblement dans une espèce de quête, gouvernée par la volonté de comprendre pourquoi Hiroyuki, parfumeur de métier, à mis fin à ses jours en buvant de l'éthanol anhydre....
Time Killers
AuthorKazue Kato
ISBN2889215091
Was haben ein dämonischer Exorzist, ein Ninja-Kaninchen, ein kleiner Superheld, ein Außerirdischer und eine Wünsche erfüllende Reisschale gemeinsam? Sie alle stammen aus der Feder der großartigen Blue Exorcist-Autorin Kazue Kato. In Time Killers, diesem Band voller wunderbarer Kurzgeschichten,...
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